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1920s

Books in the LRC:
General Links for the 1920s:
WWW-VL: History: USA: 1920-1929
Film History of the 1920s
Welcome to the 1920s
Education World- Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1920s
YAHOO! Directory - U.S. History - 1920s
dMarie Time Capsule
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html

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Begin your research with these links & the books listed at the bottom of the page.

Women and Their Changing Role
http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/suffrage/suffrage01.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/1920s/style.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Organized Crime and the Mob
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html
http://foia.fbi.gov/gangster.htm
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/1920s/crime.htm

Jazz Age
The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture & Style
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/jazz.html
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/music_directory/1920s_jazz.php

Harlem Renaissance
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm#harlem
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm

African American Leaders
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/1920.htm
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/

Political Scandals - Teapot Dome
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Investigates_the_Teapot_Dome_Scandal.htm
http://hnn.us/articles/550.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0848032.html
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Investigates_the_Teapot_Dome_Scandal.htm

Fashion and Trends
http://www.authentichistory.com/1920s/fashion/1920sfashion01.html
http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/1920s/style.htm
http://www.jazzbabies.com/nonflash/fashion.html

Stock Market Crash
http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/stock-market-crash-1

Literature
http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm
http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html
http://alephnull.net/20s/index.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/1920m.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/f-scott-fitzgerald
http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/

Ford's and the Model T
http://www.enotes.com/1920-business-economy-american-decades/ford-henry
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1621.html

Lindbergh Kidnapping
http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/guides/slcsp001.html
http://www.njspmuseum.org/lindbergh/
http://www.time.com/time/2007/crimes/
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/kidnap/
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/lindber/lindbernew.htm
http://lindberghkidnap.proboards56.com/index.cgi

Earhart Mystery
http://www.historywiz.com/historymakers/earhart.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-31-earhart_N.htm

Scopes Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scopes/scopes.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/08/2/l_082_01.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723956
http://www.scopestrial.org/

Sports
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/sports/sports.htm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/centennial/april/sports.html
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/dempsey/
http://www.answers.com/topic/johnny-weissmuller
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=50419


Heroes:
Jack Dempsey (See sports)
Charles Lindbergh (See Lindbergh)
W.E.B. Du Bois (See African American Leaders)
Louis Armstrong (See Jazz Age)
Johnny Weissmuller (See Sports)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (See Literature)
Ernest Hemingway (See Literature)
Babe Ruth (See sports)

Prohibition
http://www.authentichistory.com/1900s/prohibition/prohibition01.html
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/1920s/crime.htm
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
http://brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues/issue2.6/jankowski.html

Immigration Issues
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Nativism-World-war-i-and-the-1920s.html
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/cohn.immigration.us
http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/immigration/2.html

Sacco and Vanzetti
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/saccov/saccov.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0842879.html


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Databases to find primary resources:
Gale Net - Discovering Collection
Facts on File - Issues & Controversies
EBSCO Host - History Reference Center & Points of View

Books on your topic, in the LRC:

(These books, and others on your topic are available)

General 1920s:

  • Derks, Scott. Working Americans 1880-1999: Vol. I : The Working Class. (Includes: Ford Motor company, Fashion)
  • Derks, Scott. Working Americans 1880-1999 Volume II: The Middle Class. (Includes: Prohibition, Fashion)
  • Time capsule 1923: a history of the year condensed from the pages of Time.(Includes: Sacco & Vanzetti, Ford)
  • Time capsule 1927: a history of the year condensed from the pages of Time. (Includes: Lindbergh, Sacco & Vanzetti)
  • Time capsule 1929: a history of the year condensed from the pages of Time. (Includes: Stock Market Crash, Crime)
  • Jennings, Peter. The century. Sharman, Margaret. 1920s. (Includes: KKK, Prohibition, Crime, Scopes, Sports, Harlem Renaissance, Lindberg, The Great Depression,
  • Unstead, R. J. The twenties; an illustrated history in colour, 1919-1929. (Includes: Gangsters & Prohibition, Wall Street Crash, Literature, Entertainment, Sports)
  • Angelo, Michael. Nostalgia: Spotlight on the Twenties. (Includes: Ford, fashion, sports, Crime, Lindbergh)
  • The American heritage history of the 20's & 30's. (Includes: The Great Crash, Fashion, Sports, Earhart, Scopes, Sacco & Vanzetti)
  • Craats, Rennay. History of the 1920s. (Includes: Prohibition, Crime, Sports, Harlem Renaissance, Suffrage, Wall Street)
  • Pietrusza, David. The roaring twenties. (Includes: Prohibition, Scopes Trial, Sports, The Great Depression
  • Boardman, Fon Wyman. America and the jazz age; a history of the 1920's. (Includes: Ford, Prohibition, Crime, Literature & Art)
  • This fabulous century, 1920-1930, volume III.(Includes: Lindbergh, Ford, Jazz, Stock Market Crash, Sports, Prohibition, Crime)
  • Take Ten Years 1920s (Includes: Amelia Earhart, Teapot Dome, Sacco & Vanzetti, Prohibition, Ford)
  • A History of American Life - Vol XII (Includes: Prohibition, Women's Rights, Henry Ford)
  • A History of American Life - Vol XIII (Includes: Lindberg kidnapping, Great Depression, Stock Market)
  • Readers Digest. Great Events of the 20th Century (Includes: The Great Depression, Sacco & Vanzetti, Scopes, Prohibition)
  • The Annals of America - Vol 14 (Includes: Teapot Dome, Suffrage, Prohibition, Sacco & Vanzetti)
  • The Annals of America - Vol 15 (Includes: Stock Market Crash & The Great Depression years)

Women and Their Changing Role


  • Ingraham, Gloria D. An album of American women : their changing role.
  • Schneir, Miriam. Feminism : The essential historical writings.
  • Sullivan, George. The day the women got the vote : a photo history of the women's rights movement.
  • Women's suffrage.
  • Hahn, Emily. Once Upon a Pedestal.
  • Flexner, Eleanor. Century of struggle; the woman's rights movement in the United States.
  • Kraditor, Aileen S. The ideas of the woman suffrage movement, 1890-1920 .
  • Monroe, Judy.The Nineteenth Amendment : women's right to vote .
  • Severn, Bill. Free but not equal; how women won the right to vote.

Organized Crime and the Mob:
  • Benson, Michael. Organized crime.
  • Crime : as reported by The New York times.

Jazz Age:

  • Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns. JAZZ: A History of America's Music.
  • Wyman, Carolyn. Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Singer Supreme.
  • Panassie', Huges. Louis Armstrong.
  • Collier, James Lincoln. Louis Armstrong.
  • Jones, Max & John Chilton. LOUIS: The Louis Armstrong Story.
  • Dance, Stanley. The World of Count Basie.
  • 100 Best Songs of the 20's and 30's: Complete words and music.
  • Gitlet, Ira. Jazz Masters of the 40's.

Harlem Renaissance:
  • Lewis, David L. When Harlem was in vogue.
  • Harlem renaissance : art of black America.
  • Hill, Laban Carrick. Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Roses, Lorraine Elena. Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945.
  • Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems.
  • Langston Hughes.
  • Hill, Christine M. Langston Hughes : poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Myers, Elisabeth P. Langston Hughes: poet of his people.
  • Schroeder, Alan. Josephine Baker.
  • Berry, Faith. Langston Hughes, before and beyond Harlem.
  • Davis, Thadious M. Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a woman's life unveiled. Baton Rouge.
  • Powell, Richard J. Black art and culture in the 20th century.
  • See the Harlem Renaissance (above)
African American Leaders:
  • W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race.
  • Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk.

Political Scandals - Teapot Dome:
  • See the Table of Contents & Index in General Books (listed above)

Fashion and Trends:
  • Worrell, Estelle Ansley. American costume, 1840-1920.
  • Contini, Mila. 5000 years of fashion.
  • Contini, Mila . Fashion : from ancient Egypt to the present day.
  • Worrell, Estelle Ansley. American costume, 1840-1920.
  • Batterberry, Michael. Mirror, mirror : a social history of fashion.

Stock Market Crash:

  • Galbraith, John Kenneth. The great crash, 1929.
  • Meltzer, Milton. Brother, can you spare a dime? : the Great Depression, 1929-1933.
  • Nishi, Dennis. The Great Depression.
  • Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the great depression, 1929-1941.
  • The Depression Years as reported by The New York Times.

Literature/Entertainment:

  • Csida, Joseph. American entertainment : a unique history of popular show business.
  • Cohn, Lawrence. Movietone presents the twentieth century.
  • Eames, John Douglas. The MGM story: complete history of 50 roaring years.
  • Bayer, William. The Great Movies.
  • Worley, Demetrice. African American Literature
  • Stepto, Michele. African-American Voices
  • Gates, Henry Gates. The Norton Anthology, African American Literature
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
  • Eble, Kenneth. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • Tate, Mary Jo. F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z.
  • Oliver, Charles M. Ernest Hemingway A to Z.
  • Ernest Hemingway.

Ford's and the Model T:

  • See the Table of Contents & Index in General Books (listed above).
  • Lacey, Robert. FORD: The Men and the Machine.

Lindbergh Kidnapping:

  • Ross, Walter S. The Last Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh.
  • See the Table of Contents & Index in General Books (listed above)

Earhart Mystery:

  • See the Table of Contents & Index in General Books (listed above)
  • Gormley, Beatrice. Amelia Earhart, Young Aviator
  • Shore, Nancy. Amelia Earhart, Aviator.

Scopes Trial:

  • McLynn, F. J. Famous trials : cases that made history. (Includes Scopes)
  • Nardo, Don. The Scopes trial.
  • Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court - Book III. (Includes Scopes)
  • Aymar, Brandt. A Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials. (Includes Scopes, Sacco & Vanzetti.)

Sports:

  • Coakley, Jay J. Sport in society : issues and controversies.
  • Young, A. S. Negro firsts in sports.
  • Herzog, Brad. Dare to be different : athletes who changed sports.
  • Sports as reported by The New York Times.
  • Ritter, Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times. (Baseball)

Heroes:

  • Jack Dempsey (See sports)
  • Charles Lindbergh (See Lindbergh)
  • W.E.B. Du Bois (See African American Leaders)
  • Louis Armstrong (See Jazz Age)
  • Johnny Weissmuller (See Sports)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (See Literature)
  • Ernest Hemingway (See Literature)
  • Babe Ruth (See sports)

Prohibition:

    • Chidsey, Donald Barr. On and off the wagon; a sober analysis of the temperance movement from the Pilgrims through prohibition.
    • Lucas, Eileen. The Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments : alcohol, prohibition, and repeal.
    • See the Table of Contents & Index in General Books (listed above)

Immigration Issues:

    • Makers of America (Vol 8) - Children of the Melting Pot (See "Closing of the Gates")
    • Makers of America (Vol 7) - Hyphenated Americans.
    • Makers of America (Vol 6) - The New Immigrants.
    • Meltzer, Milton. The truth about the Ku Klux Klan.
    • Katz, William Loren. The New Freedom to the New Deal (A History of Multicultural America)
    • Wheeler, Thomas C.The immigrant experience : the anguish of becoming American.
    • Selzer, Michael. "Kike!": A documentary history of anti-Semitism in America.(Ethnic Prejudice in America Series)
    • Wu, Cheng-Tsu."Chink!" : A documentary history of anti-Chinese prejudice in America. (Ethnic Prejudice in America Series)
    • Bloom, Barbara Lee. The Chinese Americans. (Immigrants in America Series)
    • Petrini, Catherine M. The Italian Americans. (Immigrants in America Series)
    • Torr, James D.Primary Sources.(Immigrants in America Series – Includes racism and anti-immigrant views)
    • Bouvier, Leon F. Think about immigration : social diversity in the U.S.
    • Handlin, Oscar, Ed. Children of the Uprooted. (Children of immigrants tell their stories, includes 1920s)
    • Heaps, Willard Allison. The story of Ellis Island. (Describes “processing” immigrants at Ellis Island)
    • Hoff, Rhoda. America's immigrants; adventures in eyewitness history. (Story of mass migration, includes 1920s)
    • McCuen, Gary.The issues of immigration : melting pot or boiling pot? (Includes the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, and discrimination)
    • Kilian (Reeves), Pamela. Ellis Island : gateway to the American dream


Sacco and Vanzetti:

    • Aymar, Brandt. A Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials. (Includes Scopes, Sacco & Vanzetti.)